children are doing now in mariupol, no food, no drinking water, no electricity. it was minus 5 this night. they have no heat. they are sitting in cold basement. her small family is living in a bomb shelter with hundreds of others. she says they can only survive another few days. then they will have to surface. perhaps to face more of this. sam kiley, cnn, zaporizhzhia. i m going to bring in journalist and author, sebastian young, history may be on the side of ukrainians in this war. his latest book is freedom, sebastian joins me now. thank you, i appreciate you joining us. thank you. with all of the destruction of the ukrainian people up ended, it s hard to imagine how much worse the russian invasion could get, and you have a bombing at a maternity war in a hospital, it s horrific.
reporter: it may seem extraordinary, but these are the lucky ones. they ve escaped from the shadow of a nuclear power system. this is good fortune. this is a volunteer center from zaporizhzhia. it s empty. she s been waiting a week for news from home of her husband evgeni and daughter yessia. this morning she got a brief call. how s your daughter doing? my daughter told me she loves me. reporter: of course she does. she is alive. she is doing like all the children do now in mariupol. almost no drinking water, no electricity. it was minus 5 this night. they have no heat. cold basement. reporter: a small family is living in bomb shelter with hundreds of others. they can only survive another
there is also a sense that zelenskyy could win. that if he holds off long enough that his fighters are good enough that every time they engage with the russians, the russians fall apart. ainsley: newt gingrich said we need to be sending over the weapons that will destroy their warships that are in the black sea because they are trying to take over the ports and all of those cities down on the southern region i was reading this morning 15 aid workers that were grabbed from the russians. brian: yep. ainsley: over there trying to give water and supply food and supplies russian take aid workers. one says left without a home, without a city, without food, starving in cold basement. corpses on the street. they are not even burying them. brian: the wall street journal has a report out today the president is going to be walking over to brussels with more than sanctioning 300 members of the russian state their version of congress. so they are going to hit them personally.
russia has managed to exert some control and it is struggling to hold onto the east. so it s a major climb down nothing like what russia said it would initially do, which was to take over all of this country, including kyiv, in just a matter of days. richard engel tonight, thank you we re learning more about the desperate situation in mariupol from those who have made it out of the city. tonight, gabe gutierrez has a rare and exclusive look inside a city under siege. reporter: in mariupol, no one is safe run fast, this mother says don t cry, run fast. the child does sobbing. this is a rare, up-close look at the besieged port city from a family who endured weeks huddled in a dark, cold basement to escape the shelling the pictures seem more
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